Meaning & readings
luxuriant, thick, overgrown, frequency, complexity, trouble
On’yomi ハン
Kun’yomi しげ.る、しげ.く
Origin
This character combines two parts to show something becoming thick and tangled. The top part relates to quickness or activity, while the bottom part is a thread or silk radical, which classifies this as a textile or fiber term. When threads become quick and numerous, piling up and interweaving, they form something dense and luxuriant. Over time, this visual idea of densely packed fibers expanded to mean anything overgrown, complex, or happening frequently.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 16
- Kangxi radical
- 120
- Formation type
- Compound ideographic (combined meanings)
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1198 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+07E41